Keep The Fire Burning Series

2) He will send it down and our lives will crown with the blessing day by day; If we truly plead for the things we need in the earnest old time way.

3) Let us seek the face of the King of grace, let us do His holy will; Then the fire will come on each heart and home, for He loves the faithful still.

4) If your heart is cold and you’ve lost the pow’r, God will give you your desire; If we seek His face ev’ry day and hour, He will send the old-time fire!

C) That’s the thing, the very thing, that is what we must aquire; Let us pray once more as they prayed of yore for the Pentecostal fire!

I read a story that said for nearly 200 years a fire that was started with the use of flint and steel by Tom Dalton in his Blue Ridge Mountain cabin has been kept burning to this day. The fire has been moved from cabin to cabin, as old fires gave way to the newer ones, and generation after generation of descendants have watched it carefully for years. Today it is the oldest fire in the U.S., perhaps in the world. It has been no easy task, but always the fire has burned on and on!

There are many so-called eternal flames in the world, the most famous of which is the flame that burns under the Arc De Triomphe in Paris, France. This flame burns in honor of their unknown soldier and to commemorate those veterans of the 1st and 2nd World Wars who laid down their lives for the freedom of man.

But I’m thinking of a flame that burns tonight in honor of the Veteran of the greatest war ever fought! His name is Jesus Christ, and I’m talking about the war He won at Calvary for all mankind to be made free!

And I’ve made up my mind that I’m gonna keep the fire burning until He comes back again!

1 Thessalonians 5:5 - "We are the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of the darkness."

Ephesians 5:14 - "Wherefore He saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light!"

John 9:5 - Jesus said, "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

John 12:35-36 - Jesus said, "Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light."

Matthew 5: 14-16 - Jesus said, "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candle stick; and it giveth light to all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

* Closed mouths are bushels! People who don’t witness are bushels!

* But bushels won’t keep a fire hid for long! For the bushel won’t extinguish the fire, the fire will consume the bushel!

* Jeremiah said he was determined to keep his mouth closed, but "it was like fire shut up in my bones!"

B. In the Bible, the most basic source of light, other than the sun or its reflection upon the moon, is that of fire. For the sun and the moon were made to light the heavens. But to light the earth and its inhabitance, God gave it fire!